Mosul

Mo·sul

city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the site of ancient Nineveh

Mosul

A city of northern Iraq on the Tigris River north-northwest of Baghdad. An important center on the historical caravan route across northern Mesopotamia, it became part of the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s. Mosul was awarded to Iraq by the League of Nations in 1926.x

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South of Mosul, at which point navigation is blocked by two ancient dams, erected, apparently, to control the river for the Assyrian city of Calah, the ruins of which are called Nimrud by the natives after these dams, which they conceive to be the work of that mythical hero.

Were it not for these dams steamers might reach Mosul itself, at an elevation of 353 ft.

Below Mosul, for some distance, occur sulphurous and bituminous springs.

Opposite Mosul are the ruins of ancient Nineveh, the last capital of Assyria, and 20 m.

SULEIMANIEH, or Suleimania, the chief town of a sanjak of the same name in Asiatic Turkey, in the vilayet of Mosul, situated on a treeless plain in the Kurdistan Mountains, in the region known as Shehrizor, some 40 or 50 m.